[oe] how to add file to SRC_URI for target only

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks <
fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to add a file to SRC_URI for target only in a combined
> native/target recipe?
>
> Of course I know I can fully redefine SRC_URI, but I feel that is less
> desirable.
> The issue is that the target recipe needs an additional patch that the
> native recipe cannot use.
>
> Or do we need to introduce an _target suffix?
>
> Guess an intermediate variable also could do the trick.
> E.g.
>
> PATCH = "xx.patch"
> PATCH_virtclass-native = ""
> SRC_URI = "source and files and patches ${PATCH}"
>
> not really ideal either.
>
> I saw some other places where we need to tweak similarly with DEPENDS
> e.g.
> DEPENDS = "x"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-natvie = ""
>
> guess here _target could help too.
>
> Any ideas/comments/patches/... ?


Something like this should work:
DEPENDS += "${@['', 'foo']['${BPN}' == '${PN}']}"
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Christopher Larson
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Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics